Enhancing fouling mitigation of submerged flat-sheet membranes by vibrating 3D-spacers by Tan, Yong Zen, Mao, Ziming, Zhang, Yanjun, Tan, Wen See, Chong, Tzyy Haur, Wu, Bing, Chew, Jia Wei

“…Unsteady-state shear is acknowledged to be more energy-efficient in the mitigation of membrane fouling. …”
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Label-free microfluidic cell sorting and detection for rapid blood analysis by Lu, Nan, Tay, Hui Min, Petchakup, Chayakorn, He, Linwei, Gong, Lingyan, Maw, Kay Khine, Leong, Sheng Yuan, Lok, Wan Wei, Ong, Hong Boon, Guo, Ruya, Li, Holden King Ho, Hou, Han Wei

“…A growing body of clinical evidence has also reported that cellular dysfunction and their biophysical phenotypes are complementary to standard hematoanalyzer analysis (complete blood count) and can provide a more comprehensive health profiling. In this review, we will summarize recent advances in microfluidic label-free separation of different blood cell components including circulating tumor cells, leukocytes, platelets and nanoscale extracellular vesicles. …”
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PrimeNet: a framework for commonsense knowledge representation and reasoning based on conceptual primitives by Liu, Qian, Han, Sooji, Cambria, Erik, Li, Yang, Kwok, Kenneth

“…Commonsense knowledge acquisition and representation is a core topic in artificial intelligence (AI), which is crucial for building more sophisticated and human-like AI systems. However, existing commonsense knowledge bases organize facts in an isolated manner like bag of facts, lacking the cognitive-level connections that humans commonly possess. …”
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Influences of surface charges and gap width between p-type and n-type semiconductors on charge pumping by Deng, Shuo, Xu, Ran, Li, Min, Li, Lijie, Wang, Zhong Lin, Zhang, Qing

“…In addition, it is also found that the total charges in the depletion regions depend very sensitively on the air gap between the two silicon electrodes. More than 68% of the charges can be pumped out with a gap of30Å. …”
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Retarding effect of concentration of cementation solution on biocementation of soil by Lai, Han-Jiang, Cui, Ming-Juan, Wu, Shifan, Yang, Yang, Chu, Jian

“…Concentration of cementation solution (CCS) is one of the key factors influencing the cementation effect on soil improvement through the microbially induced carbonate precipitation (MICP) process. To precipitate more calcium carbonate per treatment, a higher CCS is needed. …”
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A neural circuit for excessive feeding driven by environmental context in mice by Mohammad, Hasan, Senol, Esra, Graf, Martin, Lee, Chun-Yao, Li, Qin, Liu, Qing, Yeo, Xin Yi, Wang, Menghan, Laskaratos, Achilleas, Xu, Fuqiang, Luo, Sarah Xinwei, Jung, Sangyong, Augustine, George James, Fu, Yu

“…In patients with obesity, eating is determined more by external cues than by internal physiological needs. …”
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Lipid-coated hybrid nanoparticles for enhanced bacterial biofilm penetration and antibiofilm efficacy by Lee, Hiang Wee, Kharel, Sharad, Loo, Joachim Say Chye

“…Up to 80% of all infections are biofilm-mediated and they are often challenging to treat as the underlying bacterial cells can become 100- to 1000-fold more tolerant toward antibiotics. Antibiotic-loaded nanoparticles have gained traction as a potential drug delivery system to treat biofilm infections. …”
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Mixed-addenda polyoxometalates for enhanced electrochemical water oxidation by Ong, Boon Chong, Lim, Teik-Thye, Dong, Zhili

“…A lower onset potential and higher current density were achieved by mixed-addenda POMs compared to pristine POMs suggesting that the former were more active towards the water oxidation reaction. …”
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Influences of East Asian winter monsoon and El Niño-southern oscillation variability on the Kuroshio intrusion to the South China Sea over the past 60 years by Lin, Ke, Han, Tao, Zhang, Yilin, Shen, Chuan-Chou, Lee, Shih-Yu, Wang, Jingyu, Mohtar, Ahmad T., Huang, Kuo-Fang, Chiang, Hong-Wei, Chen, Yue-Gau, Wang, Xianfeng

“…The impact of the East Asian winter monsoon (EAWM) on Dongsha δ18Oc was more pronounced during the 1970s and 1980s and after the early 2000s, while the influence of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on Dongsha δ18Oc was higher between the 1980s and 1990s. …”
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PESI: paratope-epitope set interaction for SARS-CoV-2 neutralization prediction by Wan, Zhang, Lin, Zhuoyi, Rashid, Shamima, Ng, Shaun Yue Hao, Yin, Rui, Senthilnath, J., Kwoh, Chee Keong

“…Experimental results show that PESI achieves a more balanced overall performance and a significant improvement on MCC as compared to existing architectures.…”
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Reconstruction of thiospinel to active sites and spin channels for water oxidation by Wu, Tianze, Sun, Yuanmiao, Ren, Xiao, Wang, Jiarui, Song, Jiajia, Pan, Yangdan, Mu, Yongbiao, Zhang, Jianshuo, Cheng, Qiuzhen, Xian, Guoyu, Xi, Shibo, Shen, Chengmin, Gao, Hong-Jun, Fisher, Adrian C., Sherburne, Matthew P., Du, Yonghua, Ager, Joel W., Gracia, Jose, Yang, Haitao, Zeng, Lin, Xu, Jason Zhichuan

“…The reconstruction of CoFe2 S4 gives a mixture with both Fe-S component and active oxyhydroxide (Co(Fe)Ox Hy ) because Co is more inclined to reconstruct as oxyhydroxide, while the Fe is more stable in Fe-S component in a major form of Fe3 S4 . …”
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Nanophotonic array-induced dynamic behavior for label-free shape-selective bacteria sieving by Shi, Yuzhi, Zhao, Haitao, Nguyen, Kim Truc, Zhang, Yi, Chin, Lip Ket, Zhu, Tongtong, Yu, Yefeng, Cai, Hong, Yap, Peng Huat, Liu, Patricia Yang, Xiong, Sha, Zhang, Jingbo, Qiu, Cheng-Wei, Chan, Che Ting, Liu, Ai Qun

“…Unstained S. aureus and E. coli are used as a model system to demonstrate this shape-selective sorting mechanism based on the torque-induced body dynamics, which was previously unattainable by other particle sorting technologies. More than 95% of S. aureus is retained within ONSA, while more than 97% of E. coli is removed. …”
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Antimicrobial photodynamic therapy for the remote eradication of bacteria by Yan, Evelias, Kwek, Germain, Ng, Shuang Qing, Lingesh, Shonya, Xing, Bengang

“…The evolving pathogenicity of bacteria has led to researchers searching for more effective antimicrobial therapeutics to successfully eliminate them without undesirable consequences to the human body. …”
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Dysfunctional autophagy, proteostasis, and mitochondria as a prelude to age-related macular degeneration by Lenin, Raji Rajesh, Koh, Yi Hui, Zhang, Zheting, Yeo, Yan Zhuang, Parikh, Bhav Harshad, Seah, Ivan, Wong, Wendy, Su, Xinyi

“…Recent research has uncovered a much more complex role of mitochondrial function and cytosolic protein translation and proteostasis in AMD pathogenesis. …”
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Directional emission from electrically injected exciton-polaritons in perovskite metasurfaces by Wang, Yutao, Tian, Jingyi, Klein, Maciej, Adamo, Giorgio, Ha, Son Tung, Soci, Cesare

“…Here a high-finesse metasurface cavity is monolithically patterned in the channel of a perovskite light-emitting transistor to induce a large Rabi splitting of ∼200 meV and more than 50-fold enhancement of the polaritonic emission compared to the intrinsic excitonic emission of the perovskite film. …”
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Sonodynamic Nano-LYTACs reverse tumor immunosuppressive microenvironment for cancer immunotherapy by Xu, Mengke, Hu, Yuxuan, Wu, Jiayan, Liu, Jing, Pu, Kanyi

“…Nano-LYTAC is found to have higher degradation efficacy to the interleukin 4 receptor (IL-4R) compared to traditional inhibitors. More importantly, it is revealed that the effect of nano-LYTAC on the function of the M2 macrophage is concentration-dependent: downregulating CD206 expression and interleukin 10 (IL-10) secretion from M2 macrophages at low concentration, while triggering their apoptosis at high concentration. …”
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Electrospun aligned PCLl/gelatin scaffolds mimicking the skin ECM for effective antimicrobial wound dressings by Ghomi, Erfan Rezvani, Lakshminarayanan, Rajamani, Chellappan, Vijila, Verma, Navin Kumar, Chinnappan, Amutha, Neisiany, Rasoul Esmaeely, Amuthavalli, Kottaiswamy, Poh, Zhi Sheng, Wong, Brandon Han Siang, Dubey, Nileshkumar, Narayan, Roger, Ramakrishna, Seeram

“…Furthermore, aligned mats showed more cell migration than randomly oriented mats, which is desirable for more efficient wound healing. …”
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COVID-19 and bilingual children's home language environment: digital media, socioeconomic status, and language status by Sun, He, Tan, Justina, Chen, Wenli

“…Higher-SES families possessed more conventional materials and conducted conventional activities more often, while lower-SES families possessed more digital media materials. …”
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The future of nuclear security in the Asia-Pacific : expanding the role of Southeast Asia by Trajano, Julius Cesar, Caballero-Anthony, Mely

“…The nature of regional cooperation on capacity building taking place in Southeast Asia certainly provides a good foundation to pursue a more robust collaborative framework for nuclear security in the wider Asia-Pacific region. …”
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Do we need ramsey taxation? Our existing taxes are largely corrective by Yan, Eric, Feng, Qu, Ng, Yew-Kwang

“…The empirical test conducted on the data from the World Bank and the International Labor Organization conforms to this theoretical finding. More concretely, when the labor tax increases by 1 standard deviation from the average level, the average working time may be reduced by 1.125%. …”
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